OMG! I love that graph!! According to that graph, our temps are at the same level (ok, a little more) than the time of the Egyptians..
I would like to summarize what I think of the climate change issue... I am a scientist by profession, so I believe most of my facts are correct...
Yes, man has taken a tremendous detour in the world's evolution since 1900.
- Labor saving technology developed in the late 1800s.
- The discovery of fossil fuels revolutionized human living conditions in convenience, manufacturing, travel, leisure time, and the ability for people to have longer lives and support more children.
- Global transportation and population intermingling exploded.
- Population grew exponentially.
- Global Oil consumption grew exponentially to the point it is now.
- Currently, Man is forced to continue oil use because EVERY object we own, and EVERY daily action we make is completely dependent on the continued supply of oil. (If current oil supplies ever STOPPED, more than half of the world's population would die in one year.)
- However there are two problems. Oil is a limited, non-renewable asset, so global oil supply will continue to decrease. Also, global population will continue to increase and thirst for oil will continue to increase exponentially.
Oil supply will decrease exponentially, based on the concept of "Peak Oil". THAT IS THE REAL CATASTROPHE THAT POLITICIANS ARE NOT WILLING TO TELL YOU... Rather than panic the world with the news that we are running out of oil, governments are pushing the more palatable idea that we need to improve our "environment". The problem is that man does not have a replacement technology as cheap and powerful as fossil fuels...
Do not be fooled by the media's red herring of "climate change", as that is their attempt to have license for the government to control us. The government does not want to take the bull by the horns and make laws to ration oil use and impose limits on the types of vehicles to make. People would go CRAZY if that happened. As an example, past president Jimmy Carter, (a non-politician, scientist) made a statement in his address to the country once. He stated that the oil supply of the the world was decreasing, and that we needed to conserve. That statement was not taken too well at the time..
So in terms of global warming, the government, which controls the media, are falsely appealing to our American idealistic, humanitarian values. Does anyone think that poor, uneducated subsistence-level people in third world countries give a darn about the environment? No, the want to get cars and motorcycles, just like they see the First world residents have... That is why global mass immigration has also become a crisis... Humans need to conserve oil, and develop non-petroleum technology - Not to preserve the environment, but to try to make our earth's limited oil supply last a bit longer..
For those who are not aware, I strongly recommend that people read about the concept of "Peak Oil", and Marion King Hubbert's "peak theory.